- How would the idea of evenly distributing money into men and women athletics effect the net income colleges receive from sports? Would their income increase or decrease?
- What is the difference between the average amount of scholarship money a college athlete receives compared to the scholarship earnings of an average college student? Are the numbers drastically different? Is it fair?
- Is the sports-based revenue of state University higher than that of a private University? If so, is a large factor the student population?
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I really enjoyed this presentation from the sports group. I especially enjoyed how engaging their presentation was with the audience, requiring us to voice our opinion on this debated subject. The group showed absolute understanding of their topic, efficiently and immediately answering nearly all of the questions from the audience. Personally, I feel that college athletes should by no means be paid for their presence on the team, disregarding their sports affiliated scholarships. College’s primary purpose is to educate, not to entertain with sports. I do agree that sports are a definite bonus to a school, but they should never dominate over education, in this case hypothetically giving college athletes an enormous advantage by paying them for playing sports. On another note, the idea of colleges using student tuition to fund their teams and/or anything that is associated with sports is absurd to me. Today, as we covered earlier this year in class, colleges are unbelievably expensive, making it severely difficult for some families to pay for. If they were to discover that a large amount of their money were to go to the college’s athletic program, rather than something correlated to academics, they should be angry. I can say it hundreds of times, school is about receiving an education, not watching sports! As Michael said, they are student-athletes, not athlete-students; education comes first dawg!
Tyler Andrews